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“Last week I received an email telling me they are starting another investigation, which after seven investigations seemed unspeakably cruel and vindictive.

“It has been 15 years and there have been no fewer than seven investigations and inquiries. No other army in the world that I know of treats its soldiers as political fodder like this.”

Conservative MP Johnny Mercer has called for the latest investigation to be stopped immediately.

Mr Mercer, a former Army captain who chaired a parliamentary inquiry into the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (Ihat), has raised the case with the Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson who agreed that soldiers should not be on a “constant treadmill” of investigation.

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Major Campbell and is facing his eighth investigation over the death in Iraq (file pic)

The eighth known investigation into Mr Campbell comes despite Theresa May having promised to end “witch hunts” against Iraq war veterans.

The Major has not been identified in press reports during previous investigations, but he has decided to be named after years of living under suspicion.

Mr Campbell and his two fellow troops were first cleared of manslaughter as long ago as 2006.

They were first cleared because they were informed that “witnesses had colluded and lacked credibility”.

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The 19-year-old Iraqi drowned in the Shatt al-Arab waterway in Basra

The last review of the case was completed in December by the Service Prosecuting Authority, which decided not charges should be brought.

The Iraqi Fatality Investigations body, funded by the Ministry of Defence, has informed the Iraq war veteran that it has begun another inquiry into the death of the teenager.

Mr Campbell, who specialises in explosives ordnance disposal, was wounded in Afghanistan two weeks before he found out.

He said: "In December they cleared me, in January they awarded me my long service and good conduct medal and a week ago they tell me I will have several more years of investigation ahead of me. I asked the MoD how long it would take and they said the shortest IFI inquiry so far took six months."

Major Campbell, who denies any wrongdoing, is said to have jumped into water to save the Iraqi teen, according to court documents.

Eyewitnesses claim Mr Shabram and his friends were forced off a jetty into the Shatt al-Arab waterway by troops who were caught looting.

The IFI was set up after the lawyer Phil Shiner, who acted on behalf of Ihat, was struck off for dishonesty.

Mr Shiner has paid Iraqi agents to facilitate interviews with witnesses, a practice in breach of professional standards.

Major Campbell said: “The Immense amount of resources that has been spent trying to mollify Mr Shiner and his ilk heavily outweighs any effort by the Army of Ministry of Defence to help us.

“The Ministry of Defence has bankrolled this vile man into reopening closed investigations in which he gets to select the witnesses and he directs how the investigation takes place.

“The MoD has shown cowardice rather than courage in failing to stand up to Shiner.”

Major Campbell’s hearing has been blasts and is now disabled.

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He was also badly injured jumping from the roof of a building while under fire in Afghanistan in 2011.

He also suffers from post-traumatic stress.

The Major discovered that on the day he was injured, an inquiry was taking place into the 2003 drowning.

He said: “I was under a secret investigation between 2010 and 2013 when I got wounded in Afghanistan. At the same time they were trying to find ways of putting me in prison they were expecting me to carry out bomb disposal duties. I didn’t find out about the secret inquiry until November last year when an MoD official let it slip.”